Books read in February
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glacier_kittyThe book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (Feb. 2-6). Oooh, prettyyy:
Yay wilderness mysteries!
A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan (Feb. 6-9)
A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing: The Winter Pony by Iain Lawrence (Feb. 12-15). Told from the perspective of one of the ponies on Scott's expedition. I love how he described Cherry: "There was a very nice man with a very big name. Mr. Apsley Cherry-Garrard. To me, and to everyone, he was only Cherry. He was twenty-six, which seemed ancient to a pony but not many years to a man. He looked after Weary Willy, and did it with nothing but kindness. Cherry could see only by peering through bits of glass hooked to his nose, as though he wore his eyes outside his head. It was his job to study the animals that lived in this winter land, and he was probably the happiest man on the whole ship because he was surrounded by the strangest animals." Awwww. <3 This probably shouldn't have been written as a kids book though..all the ponies die in some way or other, I think that would really upset a kid reading it!
A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Feb. 16-21)
A DNF book from your TBR list: The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Feb. 21-24)
The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list: 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines (Feb. 25-26). I love that Mrs. Chippy was included, the cat on Shackleton's Endurance expedition <3
A book that's published in 2021
An Afrofuturist book
A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
A dark academia book
A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
A book where the main character works at your current or dream job
A book that has won the Women's Prize For Fiction
A book with a family tree
A bestseller from the 1990s
A book about forgetting
A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
A locked-room mystery
A book set in a restaurant
A book with a black-and-white cover
A book by an Indigenous author
A book that has the same title as a song
A book about a subject you are passionate about
A book that discusses body positivity
A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list
A genre hybrid
A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
A book with something broken on the cover
A book by a Muslim American author
A book that was published anonymously
A book with an oxymoron in the title
A book about do-overs or fresh starts
A magical realism book
A book set in multiple countries
A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021
A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z"
A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
A book about a social justice issue
A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads
A book you think your best friend would like
A book about art or an artist
A book everyone seems to have read but you
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
Advanced
The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't
A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
A book from your TBR list chosen at random
A DNF book from your TBR list
A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)
27. What would you like to have less of in your work right now? Books that will never sell, maybe
28. What did you love to do as a child? Swim, go for walks, read, go camping, etc
1. If you could choose freely, in which company or organization would you most like to work? I'm good where I am!
Today's trivia: Surfer slang "hang ten" means having all 10 toes over your board's edge when riding a wave
Yay wilderness mysteries!
A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan (Feb. 6-9)
A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing: The Winter Pony by Iain Lawrence (Feb. 12-15). Told from the perspective of one of the ponies on Scott's expedition. I love how he described Cherry: "There was a very nice man with a very big name. Mr. Apsley Cherry-Garrard. To me, and to everyone, he was only Cherry. He was twenty-six, which seemed ancient to a pony but not many years to a man. He looked after Weary Willy, and did it with nothing but kindness. Cherry could see only by peering through bits of glass hooked to his nose, as though he wore his eyes outside his head. It was his job to study the animals that lived in this winter land, and he was probably the happiest man on the whole ship because he was surrounded by the strangest animals." Awwww. <3 This probably shouldn't have been written as a kids book though..all the ponies die in some way or other, I think that would really upset a kid reading it!
A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Feb. 16-21)
A DNF book from your TBR list: The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Feb. 21-24)
The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list: 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines (Feb. 25-26). I love that Mrs. Chippy was included, the cat on Shackleton's Endurance expedition <3
A book that's published in 2021
An Afrofuturist book
A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
A dark academia book
A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
A book that has won the Women's Prize For Fiction
A book with a family tree
A bestseller from the 1990s
A book about forgetting
A book set in a restaurant
A book by an Indigenous author
A book that has the same title as a song
A book about a subject you are passionate about
A book that discusses body positivity
A genre hybrid
A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
A book with something broken on the cover
A book by a Muslim American author
A book that was published anonymously
A book with an oxymoron in the title
A book about do-overs or fresh starts
A magical realism book
A book set in multiple countries
A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021
A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z"
A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
A book about a social justice issue
A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads
A book you think your best friend would like
A book about art or an artist
A book everyone seems to have read but you
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
Advanced
The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't
A book from your TBR list chosen at random
A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)
27. What would you like to have less of in your work right now? Books that will never sell, maybe
28. What did you love to do as a child? Swim, go for walks, read, go camping, etc
1. If you could choose freely, in which company or organization would you most like to work? I'm good where I am!
Today's trivia: Surfer slang "hang ten" means having all 10 toes over your board's edge when riding a wave
